| Circuit: | Barber Motorsports Park (2.3-mile road course) Birmingham, AL |
| 2015 Winner: | Josef Newgarden (Carpenter Fisher Hartman Racing) 107.176 mph average |
| Weather: | Sunny, warm, 82 degrees F |
Top-12 Qualifying Results:
| Ps. | Driver | Team | Manufacturer | Lap Time | Notes |
| 1. | Simon Pagenaud | Team Penske | Chevrolet | 1:06.7262 | New track record |
| 2. | Will Power | Team Penske | Chevrolet | 1:06.9421 | +0.2159 seconds |
| 3. | Josef Newgarden | Ed Carpenter Racing | Chevrolet | 1:07.0283 | Fast six shootout |
| 4. | Scott Dixon | Chip Ganassi Racing | Chevrolet | 1:07.2083 | Fast six shootout |
| 5. | Sebastien Bourdais | KVSH Racing | Chevrolet | 1:07.2965 | Fast six shootout |
| 6. | Graham Rahal | Rahal Letterman Lanigan | Honda | 1:07.6388 | Fast six shootout |
| 7. | Helio Castroneves | Team Penske | Chevrolet | 1:07.0129 | 2nd round |
| 8. | James Hinchcliffe | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports | Honda | 1:07.0955 | 2nd round |
| 9. | Tony Kanaan | Chip Ganassi Racing | Chevrolet | 1:07.1715 | 2nd round |
| 10. | Charlie Kimball | Chip Ganassi Racing | Chevrolet | 1:07.3020 | 2nd round |
| 11. | Max Chilton-R | Chip Ganassi Racing | Chevrolet | 1:08.0728 | 2nd round |
| 12. | Luca Filippi | Dale Coyne Racing | Honda | 1:08.3655 | 2nd round |
Other Honda-powered Results:
| 13. | Mikhail Aleshin | Schmidt Peterson Motorsports | Honda | 1:07.2417 | 1st round, Group 1 |
| 14. | Jack Hawksworth | A.J. Foyt Racing | Honda | 1:07.2360 | 1st round, Group 2 |
| 15. | Carlos Munoz | Andretti Autosport | Honda | 1:07.2435 | 1st round, Group 1 |
| 16. | Takuma Sato | A.J. Foyt Racing | Honda | 1:07.2385 | 1st round, Group 2 |
| 17. | Conor Daly-R | Dale Coyne Racing | Honda | 1:07.2974 | 1st round, Group 1 |
| 18. | Ryan Hunter-Reay | Andretti Autosport | Honda | 1:07.4449 | 1st round, Group 2 |
| 19. | Marco Andretti | Andretti Autosport | Honda | 1:07.6570 | 1st round, Group 1 |
| 20. | Alexander Rossi-R | Andretti Herta Autosport | Honda | 1:07.5612 | 1st round, Group 2 |
Rahal Leads Honda Qualifiers at Barber Motorsports Park
- Best qualifying effort of 2015 for Rahal
- Hinchcliffe, Filippi also advance through two qualifying rounds
- Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama runs Sunday
In his first Firestone Fast Six appearance of 2016, Graham Rahal led the Honda contingent Saturday at Barber Motorsports Park and will start sixth in Sunday's Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama. In addition to being his best qualifying result of the season, today's performance is also Rahal's strongest qualifying effort in seven starts at the scenic road course just outside of Birmingham, Alabama. In his best previous race at Barber, in 2015, Rahal started eighth and went on to finish second.
James Hinchcliffe continued to show good form on the road and street circuits of the Verizon IndyCar Series, qualifying eighth today for Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, with Luca Filippi also making it to the second round of "knockout" Indy car qualifying to start 12th for Dale Coyne Racing.
Sunday's 90-lap Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama starts at 3 p.m. EDT, with live network television coverage on the NBC Sports Network.
Graham Rahal (#15 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda): "It will make life a little easier, being this far forward [for the race start]. It's always an interesting race around this place but we'll just have to see how it plays out tomorrow. For us to get into the Fast Six, I did was about as good of a lap as I think I have ever put together here. From comments I've heard, others are struggling with the rear tires going off a lot in the long run and I don't really have that problem. We're going to keep our heads down, keep focused and just out race them a little bit. And if we can keep the rear tires under us, and save some fuel hopefully to make the end of the race easier so we can attack hard, I think it will put us in a good spot."
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